Hi, The path Vitalije is suggesting was the one that worked best for me with Leo... but took me years to discover it by myself. My first script was one that took a Leo (sub)tree and exported as a Markdown file in a desired path, using Leo node headers as Markdown headers and Leo node bodies as contents for such headers. The code was crappy and I never packaged it as a plugin (or even made a keyboard shortcut), but it taught me a lot about Leo main feature: a programmable DOM/tree that could be introspected/changed from any of its scripts nodes. That started the path that allow me to build my own (Pharo powered) interactive outliner for the PhD.
It was until I started to use the programmable DOM that Leo opened really for me (before that, the killer feature, as a non-programmer were clones), because I understood that Leo provided an extensibility layer to deal with its own limitations via scripting (which aligned with my PhD question on "how can we change the digital tools that change us"). I think that such scriptabilty possibilities could be better transmitted if we have some friendlier "end user" experience to install plugins, something like the stuff Atom or Firefox do, listing all installed and available plugins and making them one click away of distance. So, following on Vitalije's advice, I would invite you to see, which limitations Leo has for *you* right now and to explore which is the simplest script to overcome it and talk with the community to see how can we be companions for such travel. Cheers, Offray On 28/06/19 4:28 a. m., vitalije wrote: > > I think that I should pay more attention in learning the paradigm. > Read more docs, try to write a couple of plugins. > For now I need a tool to build my book from Rmds - maybe it'll be > a good challenge to write such a plugin which would connect Leo, > bookdown and R. > > I suggest you to start by writing scripts for experimenting. Once you > have a good and useful script you can put a headline on it something > like '@button my-script @key=Alt-4' . (replace my-script with > something meaningful and Alt-4 with the shortcut of your choice). > Next time you open that outline your new command, a toolbar button and > shortcut are at your service. > > Once you have a bunch of usable scripts you might want to pack them in > a plugin. > > Everything you need to do you can achieve by writing scripts only. > Plugins are more for sharing useful scripts. Developing a plugin is > not so easy because for every change you need to start a new instance > of Leo to check if it works or not. OTOH scripts are live, and every > change in the script is immediately visible. If you put your scripts > in myLeoSettings.leo they will be present in every other outline you > open, almost as if they become an integral part of Leo. > > Vitalije > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com > <mailto:leo-editor@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/29f2dddf-e576-406f-ae5a-7157b7644337%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/29f2dddf-e576-406f-ae5a-7157b7644337%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/91bc88ab-76f8-8056-a983-22030d8a1a45%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
